I could not think without writing.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Play is the work of childhood.

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Experience precedes understanding.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!

.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..

You can't reach a mountain top without friends to help you get there.

Who we shall become we are already in our souls.

All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

In fairytales, when the mask came off, the handsome prince still loved the girl, no matter what -and that alone would turn her into a princess.

A leader without a vision is just a letter without a stamp; it can never reach his destination.

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.